11/11/2003: De-faced products in Saudi Arabia
 

http://cellar.org/2003/defaced.jpg

This is a Safeway (really? so the cap says) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It turns out that there's a government censor whose job it is to scribble out all the women's faces on all the imported products, since their favorite form of way-strict Islam restricts ANY display of women's faces, even on packaging.

It sure is good they did that, 'cause now I have no impure thoughts!

I wonder how much of a demand for hair-coloring products they have over there.

Hey, somebody's gotta defend all those pure men from the Western girl pictured on the front, who is described quite directly as "Nice 'n Easy." Scandalous!

Good point, hp.... I assume they already took the "Nasty & Easy" ones off the market there.

They didn't do a very good job of censoring. It's kind of a half-assed job if you ask me. It doesn't stop you from seeing anything.

That was the point of my post, me too-er.

How dare you!

What do you expect? It's a government job, just because it's a religious duty too doesn't mean it gets done any less half-assed than any other government job.

There's something really funny about hair coloring products for a market where the women tend to keep their hair covered. Even more so when most of them are dark-haired enough that the products shown will have little effect.

Now that would be one damned wierd job.

Arabian Joke
 

What a joke! How can these people take themselves seriously? I usually pride myself on having an open mind but displays like this really bother me. Imagine you were walking down the supermarket aisle looking for that favourite hair product or moisturiser and all the womens faces had been scribbled on. Absolutely ridiculous! And this is only the tip of the iceberg - I could rant for pages about how wrong the Muslim faith is in pretty much everything they do but I wont.

If this is what happens on store boxes, I wonder what they do to television...

A government censor is stationed in every household to hold little boxes over all female faces on the tube.

Or as stuff shows on TV, someone starts scribbling over their faces like this:

http://msdelta.net/~sycamore/cellar/tmoney8.jpg

The blonde got a veil instead of the full burqua. Hmm.